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bolted into the crowd. This caused panic amongst some of the other horses too. One jockey was taken to hospital, several people in the crowd were injured, and, tragically, three horses had to be put down because of the injuries they sustained. The races were abandoned for a few years and when they did restart, several safety measures had been put into practice. Barriers were constructed, the crowd were separated from the runners and now watch from a field next to the beach, the number of runners in each race was limited and the races were limited to much shorter distances with no turning round.
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programmes. The horses used to run along the beach, make a U-turn and run back. The onlookers used to stand just feet away from them to watch the racing, with no barriers in between. In 1994 a terrible accident occurred when one of the horses became spooked by a small river stream on the course and
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Many of
Laytown's larger buildings, including the train station master's house and the large terrace homes facing onto the beach, were built in the mid-nineteenth century. The architecture of the Church of the Sacred Heart is of particular note, with its facade retained from the original nineteenth
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Laytown was once a small coastal village, but in the early 21st century, the town has seen a large population and economic boom. With the ever-developing and growing city of Dublin, Laytown, along with other villages and towns all along the east coast, has seen population growth. This has brought
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There are two primary schools in
Laytown/Bettystown which follow a Catholic ethos. They are Scoil Oilibhear Naofa Junior School and Scoil an Spioraid Naomh Senior School. Scoil Oilibhear Naofa is a recently built state-of-the-art school and the Department of Education has plans for a complete
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National School and
Gaelscoil an Bhradain Feasa. These schools teach an ethical programme and a basic type of comparative religion. If parents want the children to have faith formation in any particular religion, they have to arrange that in after school classes.
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Also in the late 1970s, an earthen mound known locally as 'The Mote' and overlooking the River Nanny at The Ninch, was partially excavated by P. D. Sweetman for the
National Monuments Section of the Office of Public Works. Two Iron Age interments were found.
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The East Meath area also has a free monthly magazine known as the Meath
Coaster. This magazine, solely supplied in East Meath, showcases images of the coast's scenery, local schools' and clubs' achievements as well as an update from the
859:"On the accuracy of the pre-famine Irish censuses" in Irish Population, Economy and Society edited by JM Goldstrom and LA Clarkson (1981) p54, and also "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850" by Joel Mokyr and
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in a box buried in the sand. Many think it was in fact found inland and the claim was made to avoid a legal claim by the landowner of the actual find site, wherever that was. The Tara Brooch is now on display in the
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Laytown which was founded in 2008 and had an enrollment of over 1,000 pupils as of 2018. The village also has three pubs, two newsagents, a pharmacy, two take-aways, a coffee shop, and a railway station.
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More recent archaeological finds include, for example, a blue glass bead of the Early
Christian Period which was found in 1976 at the rath at Ninch West. The rath is traditionally associated with
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century, but the main building being to a 1970s circular-plan. It is a single room with a large window overlooking the Irish Sea. On the hill behind the window is a twenty-foot wooden cross.
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has hosted a single annual horse racing meeting on its beach - one of only a couple on sand (held on the beach) race meetings run under official rules of racing in Europe. The
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banished all the salmon from the river. By an old schoolhouse overlooking the river there is a spring known as St
Patrick's Well, though the access path to it is overgrown.
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was filmed locally in the village of
Laytown in 1991 using the carpark as a fair-ground and the former long wooden pedestrian bridge over the River Nanny as a location.
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The surrounding area is known to have been settled for around 1500 years; recent excavations have revealed settlement at
Laytown since at least the 6th century AD.
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One of the most notable historical finds in Irish history was made on Bettystown beach in 1850. A local woman claimed (rather implausibly) to have found the
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There are also two multi-denominational schools outside the town that service East Meath and South Drogheda. They are Le Cheile
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linking the north east of the country to the capital. The village is served by the Northern commuter train line linking
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Sweetman, P.D. 1982-3 âReconstruction and partial Excavation of an Iron Age Burial Mound at Ninch, Co. Meathâ.
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where mullet, trout, eels, gobies and flounder can be caught - but no salmon. According to local folklore,
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in 1913. An express coach service links Laytown, Bettystown and Sonairte with Parnell Street in Dublin.
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Sonairte, the National Ecology Centre, is half a mile from the station on the Julianstown road (R150).
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Colaiste na hInse, Bettystown, is a co-educational school with a current enrolment of 1009
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in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Nov., 1984), pp. 473-488.
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ColĂĄiste na hInse is a school in Baile an Bhiataigh Co. na MĂ. Established in 2008
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has changed from route 190 to the D1 which provides several daily services to/from
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933:"Interactive Data Visualisations: Towns: Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney"
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called Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh. ColĂĄiste na hInse is a co-educational
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Laytown is 50 km (30 mi) north of the nation's capital,
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1040:"The Irish, Young in 'Old Europe,' Strain Schools and Housing"
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it occupies. Together with the neighbouring villages of
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was founded in 2008 and services the East Meath area.
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695:Railway Preservation Society of Ireland
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1038:Crampton, Thomas (25 January 2007).
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714:The town has a garda station and a
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1655:Towns and villages in County Meath
1634:Category:Geography of County Meath
1125:Department of Education and Skills
549:19th and 20th century developments
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1058:"Laytown and Bettystown station"
734:Both Irish and American movies (
683:Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
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910:Placenames Database of Ireland
882:Placenames Database of Ireland
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447:. Historically it was called
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18:Village in Leinster, Ireland
1150:"Information for New Staff"
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1660:Beaches of County Meath
1086:"Timetable - Route 190"
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660:Laytown railway station
644:Dublin Connolly station
626:A new secondary school
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1181:"Main Page - Sonairte"
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795:local electoral area
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443:and overlooking the
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1044:The New York Times
847:7 May 2016 at the
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1261:County town
1162:11 February
1070:6 September
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581:River Boyne
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1541:Monknewton
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1288:Athboy
573:Dublin
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